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Patron Picks August 2016 Alicia, Anne, Brenda, Cindy, Dean, Joshua, Karen Ann Margaret, Patricia, Rita, Roberta, Samantha, Traci, Twyla, and Vicky participated in the adult reading program and offer these suggested titles.
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Beyond all dreams
by Elizabeth Camden
When a librarian and a prominent congressman join forces to solve a mystery, they become entangled in secrets more perilous than they could have ever imagined.
Call Number: F CAMDEN, ELIZABETH
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Destiny : step into your purpose
by T. D. Jakes
Jakes builds on his previous works in this conversational sermon, proposing a framework for readers to discover their purpose and achieve their full potential.
"Instinct must merge with purpose to find Destiny.” Jakes, a no-nonsense speaker and author, writes directly about common problems he encounters in his ministry.
Call Number: 248.4 JAK
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
An exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.
Call Number: F NG, CELESTE
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Gray Mountain
by John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.
Call Number: F GRISHAM, JOHN
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Hammered
by Kevin Hearne
The Iron Druid Chronicles #3
To defeat Thor, the Norse god of thunder who has killed scores of innocents, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson teams up with Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, a werewolf, a sorcerer and an army of frost giants to take down the hammer-wielding bully once and for all.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Heirs of the body : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery
by Carola Dunn
Daisy Dalrymple #21
When her cousin Edgar asks to interview possible heirs to the viscountcy, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, with the help of the family lawyer, gathers together four claimants to the title, but when one claimant is murdered, Daisy must uncover a conspiracy before someone else meets the same fate.
Call Number: M DUNN, CAROLA
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Lies that bind
by Maggie Barbieri
Maeve Conlon #2
Devastated by the death of her beloved single father, Maeve Conlon learns that she may have a sister she never knew about at the same time her bakery is targeted by a sinister vandal.
Call Number: M BARBIERI, MAGGIE
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Open heart
by Elie Wiesel
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflects on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
Call Number: B WIESEL, ELIE
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Postcards from the past
by Marcia Willett
"Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall and seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred."
Call Number: LP F WILLETT, MARCIA
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Shopaholic to the stars
by Sophie Kinsella
#7 in the series Shopaholic
Becky and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky’s husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can’t wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips to Rodeo Drive. But she really hopes to become a personal stylist—Sage’s personal stylist—if only Luke would set up an introduction. Then, unexpectedly, Becky is offered the chance to dress Sage’s archrival, and though things become a bit more complicated, it’s a dream come true!
Red carpet premieres, velvet ropes, paparazzi clamoring for attention—suddenly Becky has everything she’s ever wanted. Or does she?
Call Number: LP F KINSELLA, SOPHIE
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The sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and the destruction of his faith.
Call Number: SF RUSSELL, MARY D.
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The stand : the complete & uncut edition
by Stephen King
When a disease wipes out most of humankind, the survivors gather to create a new society and to battle a force of pure evil in human form unleashed upon the world.
Call Number: F KING, STEPHEN
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Stella Bain : a novel
by Anita Shreve
Suffering memory loss due from time on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain, is taken in by a London surgeon and his wife.
Call Number: F SHREVE, ANITA
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Such Good Girls : The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
by Richard Dean Rosen
Combines the true experiences of three brave Jewish girls who survived the Holocaust with memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children, and recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown-up "hiding places" and finally brought them together.
Call Number: 940.53 ROS
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What she left behind
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at a local museum, have enlisted Izzy’s help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades old journal, and a window into her own past.
Call Number: F WISEMAN, ELLEN M.
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